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ON Thursday last, November 30, a representative meeting of former students and friends of the late Prof. Tait was held at Edinburgh University, to consider the question of extending the memorials to him. His former colleague, Principal Sir William Turner, K.C.B., presided. About 150 apologies for absence were intimated, amongst these being expressions of approval and support from the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., the Chancellor of the University; the Right Hon. Lord Aberconway; Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., President of the Royal Society; Sir John Murray, K.C.B., and the Right Hon. Lord Haldane of Cloan, P.C. Lord Haldane wrote:—“I cannot be with you on the 30th, but I wish to say that I am very glad indeed that you are taking the step of raising a memorial fund in connection with Prof. Tait. The publication of his Life affords a suitable occasion for doing this. I shall be glad to be a contributor, for I feel that a record should be preserved of the regard in which his old students and the nation generally held this remarkable man. We have too few figures of the stature of Tait to let them pass away without endeavouring to keep a permanent memorial of their greatness.”
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Proposed Memorial to Prof. P. G. Tait . Nature 88, 190 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088190a0
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